So What Happened At YouTube's Videocracy Event? — YouTube trotted out all their heavy hitters for their Videocracy event in NYC last night. — Here are some highlights of what they said: — For Content Partners/Creators — Get ready for active sharing. — Get ready for upgraded video editing tools.

Microsoft researchers make me cry — It's not often that I see software that really changes my world. It's even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in. I can count those times pretty easily. The first time I saw an Apple II in 1977.

How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million — I closed the initial funding of Seesmic in September 2007. The main investment came from Atomico's Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (they invested $5.5 million on the $6 million). Talking to bloggers all the time, I have not been very good at keeping …

If You Can't Let Go, Twitter — SOMETIMES, you just have to trust your relatives. You have to be willing to let them leave the house unchallenged. Suspend disbelief and let them take the car. — That's what I tell my three daughters, anyway. But it never works out like that.

RIP: Yahoo! Design closed down — an anonymous source just informed me the entire Yahoo! Design Innovation team (once coined yHaus) has been laid off, part of a closing-down of all innovation teams at Yahoo. in addition, their work has been completely removed from their original website. infosthetics …

Zimbra's new Desktop: Look ma, no browser! — I fell in love with Zimbra's Ajax-style interface the first time I saw it. — Slick, powerful, and much more extensible than Microsoft Outlook ever dreamed of being. There was just one thing I hated about the Zimbra experience …

New York Times Plans to Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs — After years of resisting the newsroom cuts that have hit most of the industry, The New York Times will bow to growing financial strain and eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs this year, the executive editor said Thursday.

Microsoft drums up its very own Xbox 360 shortage — The word on the street, nay, the word straight from Jeff Bell's mouth, is that the Xbox 360 is experiencing stock shortages, which could hurt sales for January and February. We'd already heard of Elite shortages, but now they seem to be more widespread.

BitTorrent firms: Comcast throttling is anticompetitive — BitTorrent and other companies that provide bulk file distribution lashed out at Comcast on Thursday, saying the throttling of peer-to-peer connections is a naked attempt to harm video services that compete with cable TV.

RIM: BlackBerry's future lies in social networking — BARCELONA, Spain—The secret of the BlackBerry's success is security, according to Research In Motion's co-chief executive, Jim Balsillie, but social networking is its future. — Speaking during a session on mobile services …